| William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1869 - 414 pages
...most miserable, and wished that all women who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed...in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worse a hundred times) with a red mark on the forehead from an uneasy hat — all this may qualify... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...most miserable, and wished that all women who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed...in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worse a hundred times) with a red mark on the forehead from an uneasy hat — all this may qualify... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 410 pages
...most miserable, and wished that all women who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed...in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worse a hundred times) with a red mark on the forehead from an uneasy hat — all this may qualify... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pages
...most miserable, and wished that all women who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed...in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worse a hundred times) with a red mark on the forehead from an uneasy hat — all this may qualify... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 pages
...most miserable, and wished that all women who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed...in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worse a hundred times) with a red mark on the forehead from an uneasy hat — all this may qualify... | |
| Tom Taylor - 1874 - 554 pages
...miserable ; and wished that every woman who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham on a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed...in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worse a hundred times) with a red mark on the forehead from an uneasy hat—all this may qualify them... | |
| Lucy Cecil Lillie - English literature - 1878 - 384 pages
...miserable, and wished that every woman who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham in the morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed...hacks, come home in the heat of the day with a fever . . . simper for an hour and catch cold in the Princess's apartment. From thence, as Shakespeare has... | |
| Robert Weir Brown - Kensington (London, England) - 1881 - 348 pages
...all things the most miserable, and adds a description of the duties involved. To eat " Westphalia ham in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed...home in the heat of the day with a fever and (what is worse a hundred times) with a red mark on the forehead from an uneasy hat ; all this may qualify them... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 pages
...most miserable, and wished that all women who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed...in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worse a hundred times) with a red mark on the forehead from an uneasy hat — all this may qualify... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1882 - 874 pages
...most miserable, and wished that all women who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed...in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worse a hundred times) with a red mark on the forehead from an uneasy hat — all this may qualify... | |
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